Aged vs Agued - What's the difference?
aged | agued |
(uncountable) Old people, collectively.
(age)
Having the age of. (primarily non-US)
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(ague)
(obsolete) An acute fever.
* Brenning agues. —P. Plowman.
(pathology) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.
A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
(obsolete) Malaria.
Sad mortals! thus the Gods still plague you!
He lost his labour, I my jest:
For he was drowned, and I've the ague * 1852 : *: 'Ague and lake fever had attacked our new settlement. The men in the shanty were all down with it, and my husband was confined to his bed on each alternate day, unable to raise hand or foot, and raving in the delirium of the fever.' * 1867 : , 1867 Edition, chapter III. *: He shivered all the while so violently, that it was quite as much as he could do to keep the neck of the bottle between his teeth, without biting it off.
"I think you have got the ague'," said I.
"I'm much of your opinion, boy," said he.
"It's bad about here," I told him. "You've been lying out on the meshes, and they're dreadful ' aguish . Rheumatic too." * 1969 : , p. 200. *: He had to capture some character and get out of that rest room before his ague got so bad that the sergeant had to carry him to and from the booth every day. To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
As verbs the difference between aged and agued
is that aged is past tense of age while agued is past tense of ague.As an adjective aged
is old.As a noun aged
is old people, collectively.As a preposition aged
is having the age of. (primarily non-US.aged
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Alternative forms
* (disyllabic only)Noun
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(head)Preposition
(English prepositions)- Aged 18, he had no idea what would happen next.
Court of Special Sessions”, in The New York Times :
- John Mathews, aged about 18, stood at the bar with his hands in his pockets, alike indifferent to a verdict of acquittal or guilty.
As Young Lose Interest in Cars, G.M. Turns to MTV for Help”, in The New York Times :
- Forty-six percent of drivers aged 18 to 24 said they would choose Internet access over owning a car, according to the research firm Gartner.
Anagrams
* *agued
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(head)Anagrams
*ague
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(en noun)- (Dryden)
Usage notes
The pronunciation is the correct pronunciation.Quotations
* 1810 : Lord Byron, "Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos" *: 'Twere hard to say who fared the best:Sad mortals! thus the Gods still plague you!
He lost his labour, I my jest:
For he was drowned, and I've the ague * 1852 : *: 'Ague and lake fever had attacked our new settlement. The men in the shanty were all down with it, and my husband was confined to his bed on each alternate day, unable to raise hand or foot, and raving in the delirium of the fever.' * 1867 : , 1867 Edition, chapter III. *: He shivered all the while so violently, that it was quite as much as he could do to keep the neck of the bottle between his teeth, without biting it off.
"I think you have got the ague'," said I.
"I'm much of your opinion, boy," said he.
"It's bad about here," I told him. "You've been lying out on the meshes, and they're dreadful ' aguish . Rheumatic too." * 1969 : , p. 200. *: He had to capture some character and get out of that rest room before his ague got so bad that the sergeant had to carry him to and from the booth every day.